On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > Nope not working for me. A raw checkout of a branch, there is no NEWINSTALL > file, nor a welcome.w2p file since we don't need it. > > The app only contains controllers, cron, languages, models, modules, static, > tests, views, __init__.py. > > From this state, when starting web2py just by python web2py.py. Navigate to > the app in firefox or other web browser, and it crashes because it cannot > connect to the sqlite database 5 times, this is because the databases folder > does not exist from a raw checkout of our app, and web2py does not seem to be > creating any of the folders. > > If I navigate into my app directory, and run ``mkdir databases`` then > navigate to the app, everything is fine, and web2py ends up making the > uploads, private, cache, sessions, and errors folders.
Odd. The admin.create_missing_app_folders() call in main.wsgibase should be creating the folder. Could you throw a couple of strategic debug prints into that function and see what's going on?

